Volume 19 Chapter 89 Amazing Ability

"Ah... help..." The trapped researcher screamed desperately. He is a senior researcher, and his combat effectiveness is basically zero, so when faced with danger, he obviously does not have as good a response as a combatant. But he was lucky because I was standing next to him. The moment he was rolled up by the tentacle, the blade claw on my wrist had already slipped out. With a flip of my wrist, I swung upwards and passed through the tentacle with a crack.

The tentacles and the luminous body could pass through the operating table at will, so I judged it to be a spirit body rather than strength. However, when the tentacles just rolled up the researcher, I thought it had materialized itself. After all, the researcher's The body is strength, and the non-corporeal tentacles will definitely not be able to wrap him up. But what surprised me was that my blade claw actually passed through the tentacle as if it didn't touch anything.

Although the first sword swing was empty, my reaction did not slow down at all. With a flip of his wrist, the magic power was instantly transmitted to the blade claw, and the blade claw with a layer of light purple-black light instantly passed through the tentacle again, and this time the effect was like cutting butter with a red-hot steel knife. , instantly cut off all the tentacles entangled with the researcher, and the researcher was caught by my other hand and thrown backward. Ling reached out behind me and caught the researcher and put him on the ground, while I continued to wave my claws and instantly cut off the spirit body's tentacles without leaving a single one. After being cut off, those broken tentacles seemed to be like smoke that automatically dissipated in the air before falling to the ground.

"Stand back, this thing is very dangerous." I stopped a few researchers who wanted to take a look at the situation, and then I took a step back. Although I cut off the tentacles on the surface of the thing, they quickly grew back, but the length was obviously much shorter than before. It seems that the energy of this thing is also limited and cannot grow infinitely.

"President, this thing is so dangerous, how should we deal with it?"

"It doesn't matter. To me, this is not a very dangerous thing." I said and looked at the researcher next to me who had just been rescued. "How are you? You can check the energy properties of this thing." ?"

Although the researcher's face was still a little pale, he nodded and said, "No problem." After saying that, he walked behind the monitor and started the machine again. After using the new machine to take a photo of the soul body for a while, the researcher frowned and said: "President, it is definitely true that this thing is a spirit body, but its energy intensity is very unstable. Sometimes it can reach more than 10,000 standard units, and when it is low, it is only a few tenths. There is no pattern at all. Moreover, I just looked up the consciousness signal of this soul on the instrument and only read the signal of hunger. According to the conclusion of the machine analysis, this The thing should be a type of artificial soul. It has a similar principle to the artificial soul loaded in our mobile angel, but its functions seem to be imperfect. Some of its abilities are much stronger than our artificial souls, while some basic abilities are completely missing. "

"You mean this is an incomplete soul?"

"It's not incomplete, but a congenital defect. It feels like... it's like it was suddenly taken off the production line in the middle of manufacturing, without any subsequent processes."

"Is it an incomplete defective product?" I thought for a moment and said, "Let's clean up this place first. Let's find another place to do some experiments to see how many special abilities this thing has."

A researcher in charge of soul research immediately suggested: "Our dangerous spirit body testing site over there is very suitable for testing this thing, why not just move there?"

"Then go over there."

Under my order, everyone quickly packed up their things and began to move positions, and the magical component was dragged by Ling's magic power to the testing site.

This spirit testing ground is very different from the general weapons testing ground. It is not an open space, but a rather huge room. This room is made entirely of transparent materials. There are multiple energy neutralizing devices installed on the outside, which can release energy of opposite nature according to the characteristics of the spirit being tested to neutralize its energy attributes. Although this barrier has no active attack power, it can restrain energy creatures. Any energy creature that attempts to forcefully break through the barrier will be completely dissipated by the neutralizer exhausting its energy, so this barrier is indestructible to the energy body.

After placing the spirit body into the testing area, we all retreated outside the testing barrier, leaving only two early model golems in the testing area.

Because someone must be responsible for operating the experiment, there must be people in the experimental area. However, because the things tested are often dangerous goods, it is not safe for researchers to stay inside. In order to ensure the safety of the researchers and meet the experimental requirements, leaving a few golems inside is the best way. Of course, the new model of mobile angels is originally more suitable for experiments than the golems, but there is a flaw in the mobile angels that determines that they are not suitable for working here.

Compared with the backward golems in the early days, the performance of the current mobile angels has been greatly improved in all aspects. However, in order to make the mobile angels possess super high intelligence, we installed artificial souls on the mobile angels. Although this improvement gave the mobile angel a level of intelligence that the golem could not match, it also gave the mobile angel the weakness of a soul. Because the early golems had no such thing as souls, they were naturally completely immune to soul attacks. After all, they did not have any souls for the other party to attack. But things are different after the Mobile Angel has a soul. Although there are some differences between artificial souls and natural souls, and we have specially set up soul attack protection devices, mobile angels will still be harmed by souls, but they are more resistant than ordinary creatures. However, no matter what, mobile angels will always be affected by soul attacks, so it is not safe to use mobile angels in a place that specializes in studying dangerous spirits. In comparison, although the early golems were a bit dumber, they were not afraid of soul attacks at all, and were more suitable for the work here. As for the problem that the old-fashioned golems are not smart enough, it doesn't matter. Anyway, the researchers are just outside the experimental area. If there are any problems, they can correct them on the spot. Although Honest Golem is stupid, he can still understand basic commands.

After preparing the experimental equipment and old-fashioned golems and activating the protective barriers, we also entered the operation room. From here, we can clearly see all the conditions in the experimental area, and we can also use the sound transmission installed here. The magic circle directly commands the demons inside to conduct experiments.

Seeing that the golem inside was ready, the researcher next to me began to command after asking me: "Turn on soul energy monitoring."

The researcher next to him quickly started the monitor here. Compared with the machine that was just pushed to the temporary laboratory, the fixed equipment here has obviously many more functions, and its performance is also much better. Just looking at the crystal indicators that fill the screen makes me think that this thing is super complicated. .

"The monitor starts normally." The researcher behind shouted.

The researcher in charge next to me nodded when he heard this, and then said to the sound transmission magic array: "No. 1, extract a blank soul and throw it next to the experimental target."

Following the researcher's order, a golem with the number 1 on it in the experimental area quickly turned around and walked to a row of containers in the corner of the room. Then he accurately grabbed a small bottle and turned around and threw it to the strange man. on the soul carrier. With a snapping sound, the crystal bottle fell onto the stand next to the carrier and became fragments on the ground. At the same time, a ball of white soul fire also floated out.

Just now, the spirit body seemed a little sluggish after I cut off several tentacles in succession. It seemed that the entire reaction was slowed down because of the depletion of energy, so we planned to feed it some soul power first to make it slightly more alive. 'sex'.

As soon as the fire of this soul floated out, the spirit body over there suddenly started to move. More than a dozen tentacles instantly wrapped around the ball of soul fire, and then quickly pulled it into his body. After that, the ball of soul was instantly swallowed by the soul carrier at its core.

After eating the ball of souls, a fierce light flashed on the carrier, and the spirit body wrapped in the carrier immediately grew in size. The tentacles on it also returned to the length before the injury, and the tentacles were swinging. The pace is obviously much faster than before.

"It seems that this thing does work on soul energy, but this little soul energy doesn't seem to be able to meet its needs." An assistant researcher next to the researcher said.

The researcher in charge here nodded and said to the sound transmission circle: "No. 1, throw nine more soul fires to it."

After hearing the order, Golem No. 1 immediately took out nine bottles and threw them near the spirit body. Then he saw the tentacles squirming wildly and directly caught the bottles in the air and crushed them to pieces. As for the ones among them, The soul fire was pulled into its core carrier the moment the bottle burst.

After swallowing nine balls of soul fire in one breath, the spirit body became obviously excited. Not only did its size and number of tentacles increase, but it also actively used its tentacles to explore in various directions, as if it wanted to To find something.

Seeing that the mental body was already quite active, the researcher in charge began to order the devil to use various weapons to test what harm this thing was afraid of. For those dangerous souls, it is very important to first understand what they are afraid of. If an accident occurs later, knowing their weaknesses can at least eliminate them.

This step of testing is a routine test. The No. 1 golem followed the pre-arranged steps and tried all possible attack methods without any follow-up orders. The results proved that this thing has the same basic properties as ordinary ones. The soul is not much different. It is not afraid of physical damage and can be emptied or materialized at will, but it is extremely sensitive to energy damage, and all kinds of magic damage have a very strong killing effect on it.

"It seems that the defensive capabilities of this thing are not very good." I said looking at the test results.

The researcher in charge of the research said: "Naked souls are generally like this. Even individuals such as ghosts among the undead that can materialize their souls are also very afraid of energy attacks. This is a basic attribute." , it is not something that can be changed by improving strength. The artificial souls used by mobile angels in our guild are actually very fragile if taken out. The reason why mobile angels now have relatively strong resistance to soul attacks is because we give them A protective magic circle is added to the outside of the artificial soul carrier. All the external parts of the carrier are missing, and it is now equivalent to a 'naked' soul state, so it is normal to be afraid of energy attacks."

I nodded and said: "Then you should quickly test it to see what the special ability of this thing is. Previously in the city of chaos, this guy actually transformed something like a beam cannon. Previously in the city of chaos, There are no similar parts on him at all! Moreover, this guy actually used a teleportation device to escape in the end, and that thing is obviously not the function that the original parts on it should have."

"We have seen this in the battle records before, but it may take some time to figure it out. Now let's try its reaction to the mechanical parts first." After the researcher finished speaking, he said to Golem No. 1: "Throw the experimental equipment next to the spirit body."

After receiving the order, Golem No. 1 immediately took out a metal part from the operating table next to it and threw it at the spirit body. Originally, I thought that the part would fall to the ground, but to our surprise, the thing was caught by the spirit body in mid-air.

I can understand that this spirit caught those soul bottles before, after all, they contained the soul energy that it liked to eat. But what is it going to do now with this mechanical part? Can it still eat metal?

As soon as I thought about eating metal, my expression suddenly changed. The demon doll in the cave of the City of Chaos had chewed the thigh of a mobile angel before, and the other parts on his body obviously could not have the function of self-repair by swallowing the parts of other mobile angels. Yes, then how was it able to eat the thigh of a mobile angel? The answer must lie in this soul carrier. In other words, this thing might really be able to eat metal.

Although the result is not exactly what I guessed, it is almost the same. After catching the part, the guy put it directly on the carrier. Then we saw that the metal part quickly melted and decomposed into a ball of shining silver like butter on a frying pan. of 'liquid' metal.

After the liquefied metal completely turned into liquid, as if driven by some force, the liquid actually flowed along the outer shell of the carrier to the bottom of it and all penetrated into the carrier. In the gap between the experimental bench.

As all the liquid metal penetrated into the gap under the carrier, we suddenly found that the carrier moved, and the entire carrier suddenly rose. After it rose, we immediately discovered There are actually six mechanical legs that look like crab legs growing out from underneath it.

Seeing this change, the research director next to me immediately said excitedly: "It seems that this is the secret to wound healing and evolving weapons."

I nodded after hearing what the researcher said. Although this mechanical leg has no technical content, since it can turn an unrelated part into such a walking system that it urgently needs now, it is not incomprehensible that it can be turned into a weapon when resources are sufficient. .

When we were talking about the secret of its transformation, the researcher who was responsible for monitoring the soul energy next to him suddenly said: "Director, the energy value of the spirit body dropped by more than 300 during the process of forming the mechanical legs just now. It seems that it has formed a new The formation consumes soul energy."

"The principle of equivalent exchange is very universal. It is normal to consume some energy to make new parts. By the way, did it consume energy when it melted and decomposed that part before?"

"Yes. But the consumption is not large."

"how many?"

"There are only thirty or so, which is about one-tenth of what forms the mechanical legs."

After hearing what the two researchers said, I immediately asked: "Can I understand that the synthesis of one unit mass of metal requires ten times the energy to decompose it?"

"This is not necessarily true. Detailed data requires repeated experiments before it can be determined. However, judging from the current data, this is likely to be the case."

"Then...eh? What is that thing doing?"

When I was about to ask the researcher to conduct a few more experiments, the carrier in the experimental area actually climbed forward with the support of six legs. However, this guy seemed to be completely unable to see the road because he had no eyes. As a result, he walked to the edge of the experimental table without taking two steps, then stepped on the air and fell off the top. However, because the carrier itself is made of metal, it has extremely high hardness. Even though it fell off the experimental bench, nothing happened. However, this guy's mechanical leg unfortunately flipped over and turned into an upturned state.

We all thought it would get stuck, but who knew that after kicking it up and down for a while, it seemed to realize that it couldn't be turned over, so it quickly stopped kicking. , but let the six legs melt into a liquid state again and flowed to the side that is now touching the ground. Soon after, it stretched out the six legs again and stood up, but the six legs changed directions. That’s all.

"It seems that this thing can decompose and synthesize metal at will." Looking at the six legs that have grown back, the researcher in charge said.

I quickly asked: "Has the energy change just been recorded? What is the consumption of its decomposition and synthesis of parts?"

The researcher responsible for observing energy changes immediately said: "Same as last time, the decomposition consumes more than thirty, and the synthesis consumes more than three hundred."

"How much energy does it still have?"

"Its energy has always been unstable, and its current value fluctuates between more than 178,000 and 180,000."

"How much energy did it replenish by eating a soul fire before? How much energy did the soul fire originally have?"

The researcher responsible for monitoring energy changes replied: "The soul fire here is the standard soul energy used for testing. Each soul fire ball is ten thousand units of soul energy. It just ate ten balls of soul fire in total. , but the soul energy only increased by more than 80,000, and the absorption rate is about 83 to 84%."

"A pretty high conversion rate!" I said.

"Yes. But it's just...no, put down the separation wall quickly and don't let it pass." The researcher in charge suddenly shouted anxiously in the middle of speaking, because the soul carrier in the experimental area had re-created six legs. He actually crawled towards Golem No. 1. You must know that although Golem No. 1 is not afraid of soul attacks, it is also made of metal, and that thing can just break down metal. In addition, there is a large row of soul energy storage tanks and a lot of experimental equipment and metal parts behind No. 1. Once this guy touches those things and eats them all, the consequences...! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation at *** (***.***), ***. Your support is my biggest motivation.)